"Every loss, every mistake, was seared into her soul, creating a different kind of tattoo, one made from rage and abandonment, heart break and tears."

Trauma, Memory, Emotion, Pain

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"Every loss, every mistake, was seared into her soul, creating a different kind of tattoo, one made from rage and abandonment, heart break and tears."

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"The moment her hymen was plucked from her body in the wilderness, Her soul was taken from sanity."

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"His abusemakes her an anvilwithout spark."

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"The entire time, he'd only ever looked at my body, never at my face, his empty eyes hungry, never seeing me at all. I wasn't the presence of a person, but a body. I could have said anything, he wouldn't have heard me. He'd never responded, not by stopping, not with his words."

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"But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Trauma, Family, Pain, Loss, Focus

"No, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom whose eyes worked but I don't think you can."

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"But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

Trauma, Killing, Memory, Guilt, Consequence

"One day I was able to get up, after gathering all my strength. I wanted to see myself in the mirror hanging on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me."

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Trauma, Observation, Identity, Life

"I wonder if anyone gets through childhood without being broken. I certainly did not."

Kiersten White, American Author

Trauma, Childhood, Resilience, Awareness

"Struggling transforms her captor into a Chinese finger trap. She's suffocating. Sucking in air without relief. Her lungs expand. Contract. Expand. They fill with lies and broken promises. With despair and lost hope. Each inhale is empty. Invisible hands reach into her body and constrict around her windpipe. She watches her friends collapse like supernovae, their cognizance disappearing into a black hole. A black hole she's quickly cascading into. The dark consumes, bleeds into her vision. She blinks. Catches icy blue eyes peeking out from the shadows."

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"Nobody the dead man & Nobody the livingNobody is giving in & Nobody is givingNobody hears me but just Nobody caresNobody fears me but Nobody just staresNobody belongs to me & Nobody remainsNo Nobody knows nothingAll that remains are remains."

Isolation

"Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?"

Learning

"Life without Ethan was something worse than a nightmare.It was real.So real that I refused to believe it."

Change

"In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing."

Emotions

"You climbed into my window in the middle of the night. So, either you're some kind of Vampire or some kind of Perv. Which is it?"

Humor

"The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay."

Poetry

"There was a choice to be made, and Lena hadn't made it. The songs never lied. At least, they hadn't yet."

Choice

"We both loved her. And you couldn't control who you loved, even if you wanted to."

Achievement

"She was wearing a purple T-shirt, with a skinny black dress over it that made you remember how much of a girl she was, and trashed black boots that made you forget."

Appearance

"Her hair curled around her shoulders, long and loose, held back with glinting clips, in one those magical ways girls have of making their hair look like it is supposed to be up, but also sort of falling down."

Identity